Japan, South-East Asia
£600
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 3 September 2008 at 12:00 BST
Description
A album of 41 tinted albumen prints of Japan, c. 1880's, c. 27 x 21cm at largest, 13.5 x 9cm high at smallest, pasted onto recto only of card leaves, including 7 views of Toyko, 7 views of Kyoto including Shijo Bridge & Kiyomizu, Gathering tea leaves at Yamashiro, Transplanting rice sprouts, a single view of Hiogo, Road to Ikuta Temple in Kobe, Ishiyamadera Temple in Omi, Kasuga at Nara, Sumiyoshi, 2 views of the wisteria garden at Nakasendo, Takinogawa near Oji, Teahouse garden at Hikone, Fujiya Miyanoshita, 3 urban views [no captions], 3 smaller views of Hakone Lake, 9 other smaller views [no captions] [including] 15 views of South East Asia[?], contemporary red morocco, a.e.g., some rubbing to extremities